Age: 29 years old
Height: 5’9
Starting weight: 308 lbs.
Occupation: Accountant
Diet of choice: “Wedding Dress Diet” by Robyn Flipse
Goal: 40 pounds by her wedding day.
Dress: Lisa purchased a dress that was 3 dress sizes smaller. She was too big to even fit into largest size of the wedding dress she ordered. Lisa literally can't afford to fail.
Heard before the diet: “I am not walking down the aisle looking like a balloon.”
Challenge: Lisa has tried dieting before, but has never been able to keep the weight off. Obesity runs in her family as well.
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Age: 26 years old
Height: 5’3
Starting weight: 173 lbs.
Occupation: Door-to-door sales rep
Diet of choice: Jenny Craig
Goal: Shedding 40 lbs.
Dress: She ordered a dress two sizes too small.
Heard before the wedding: “They [bridal store] just made me initial a piece of paper saying that they did recommend the larger size and I ordered the smaller one.”
Challenge: As an occupational hazard of her sales job, she spends most of her day in the car -- and eating on the go.
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Age: 28 years old
Height: 5 feet
Starting weight: 160 lbs.
Occupation: Pediatric nurse
Diet of choice: South Beach Diet
Goal: Weight loss of 25 lbs.
Dress: Minne has a dress custom-made from India. It fits her at her starting weight, but hoped that by her wedding, she’ll lose enough to get it taken in.
Heard before the wedding: “Where I work, patients' parents are really good to us, so they bring us a lot of sweets and stuff. So you can’t just walk by the break room without seeing something and want to grab it.”
Temptation: Minnie tries to avoid stress-related snacking, while facing the pressure of planning a 1,000-person wedding party.
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Age: 22 years old
Height: 5’5
Starting weight: 228 lbs.
Occupation: Store manager
Diet of choice: Weight Watchers
Goal: Losing 50 lbs. by her wedding
Dress: Courtney bought a dress she already fit into.
Heard before the wedding: \"Right now the only exercise I get is walking to and from the front of the register from the back of our store.\"
Her biggest challenge: Sticking to diet and exercise plans. Overweight her entire life, she has the most weight to lose of all the brides.
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Height: 5’6
Starting weight: 167 lbs.
Occupation: A one-time aspiring actress, Michelle is now a mother, a student, and has a part-time job.
Diet of choice: \"Bridal Bootcamp\" written by Cynthia Conde
Goal: To drop 30 lbs. by her wedding
Dress: Michelle’s dream dress was two sizes too small.
Heard before the wedding: \"I want to see my stomach flat and smooth again. I want to see some space between my thighs. And I don't want to see this (points to hips).\"
Challenge: Her schedule. In addition to being a mother, she also has a part-time job and attends school.
Click here to read how Michelle did on the challenge."; // END editorial data